Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-12-24
Government Lands


 Letters are continually arriving ask- tag the price of public lands, aad some make 8 reqness that agents secure houses for people wao live in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. This arises from the fact that people east srs not inferned n the land laws, and thInS that all ths, is necessary in taking claims is for the papers to be filed by an agent, and then they osn pay out on the land the same ss though the purchase was from private individuals.
 Any person excep. soldiers snd sol dieTs heirs must make afijavi. that they are eccusinted with the ibnt they are snis riGg, snd also 3ske affidavit that to ihe ees, of thsir knowledge there is no mineral on the same.
 TEMPTATIONS.
 Section 176 ssys Una. every person being the head of s family, widow, or single person over the age of twenty-ore and citizen of the United States, or having filed a declaration of intention to become such, s5 required by the natural IzatiOn lave. who has made or hereafter makes a SETTLEMENT IN PERSON on the public lands subject 10 pre-emption, and who inhsbits and improves the same and who has erected 6 dwelling thereon is authorized to enter with the register of the United States land office for the dis trict in which the land lies, by legal sub division any number of acres not ex- cssding one hundred and sixty acres or a quarter section of land to include the residence of such claimant upon paying the United States minimum price of k.
 prietOr of three hundred ard twenty acres csn pre-emps land. No person Sho quits CT a5andons his own land to :eside 0n p1bho land in the same state OT terTiscfy can pre-empt. Persons can however, tgke hOnestesds and timber claims was ther he hes tLe three hundred and tverty acres or not; neither does the .sw prUElcIi bis taking a homestead when he lJ-s !cIt 8 residence on hls own .snd. Inc above only refers to pre- eaptioBs-
 The first -iyclcInt in taking 6 pre- -nptiOn IS tC -ele0s the quarter section tssired. and ascertain from the Land OEoe record that 1t is vacant and sub iscs ;o entry. He must then mske some Improvements. Not stick up stakes, out make some substantial improve nents. and then within ninety days fle ldeelsrstOry statement for the land in he local land office. the fees for which Irs three dollars. 4 residence must be stabilized on the land when the improv- nents are first begun, and continuous residence is obligatory.
 After a coD.inous residence upon a pre-emp.ion for six months settlement san be proven and the government price being paid, there will be final receipt ssaed to the pre-emptor; but in cose ,ither does not desire to make final proof ct the end of six months, he has thirty three months from the time he nsne settlement.
 HOMESTEAD Entries must be made in person, usually before tEe Register of the local Land Office and the entry fees are sixteen | dollars. The requirements of the home slesd law are about the same as those | of the pre-emptiOn, except that residence can be established within six months | after making dlng; but homestesds are | suSject to contests IT settlers fail 10 get | on the land inside of sir months after | entry. Homestesds may be proved up | in six months and paid out on, the same ss pre-emptions. bat can be proved up in slI years without paying. In making hnal proof the settler will be required | 70 give the number of times he or she | hos been ab5en. from the claim, where | went, and for what they went, and are | questioned regarding the amount of im- | proveusnts they have. if in the judgment | of the Register 6nd Receiver the law has | not been complied with they will not is- .us a final receipt.
 TIMBER CLAIMS Do not require residence. Timber | claims must be entered by personal sp- plicasion sworn Co within the land dis trIcl where the land IS situated. before some officer having a asesl and author ized to administer oath. Claimant must | have i've acres broken the first year, the | second year must have five acres broken | and culasIvste the first breaking. the | thivd year must put trees, seeds or | cuttings in the first i've acres and culti- | vate the second five; the fourth year | must set Ous The second i've acres m | trees, tree seed. or tree cuttings. II in | 3ight years there gre six thousand seven | hundred and afty growing trees on the | tract, claimant can make final proof and | secure 6 patent GoyernmsnI fees in timber culturs claims are fourteen dol | larB for entry and ten dollars for final | proof.
 Ali duties required by the timber cul- suTs laws may be done by others except | ,hs eat-y and final proof; nor Is he or 7hs required to reside near the land but will algsys Do expected to comply with she lew in regard to improvements.
 Taere IS nc fixed amount of improve neuts required iD homestead or pre- em2sion law, residence and cultivation | in good faith as home and 6 farm to | he claimants pest ability is held to be | the requirement of the law.
 SOLDIERS RoKlsTKADa
 6o!dlers vhc served ID the United | States army for ninety days and were | Sonorably discharged and have lived | loyal to the government can file declar- | story statements On one hundred and sixty acres of yassnt land, by SD agent through the power of attorney ID | a form prescribed by law. This power | o.n be executed before notary public | anywhere in the United States, and l seq. 10 some reliable agent who will se- | lect the quarter section of land and He on it for the soldier. This filing wlll | absolutely hold the land for six months 
 vithou. the residence of claimant. Al She end of SIX months the so,dIer must I begin q residence and make another | filing, called the final entry, at which l time he pays fee the same as in home | stead cases. Soldiers are compelled to live at least one year on their claims, | bat they can deduct their service as solder from the five years required by ;hsoommon homestead and thus get their patent in shorter time than he who has not served his country as a soldier. Soldiers widows are entitled to use the ieceased husbands service while m the Esr, to assist her in proving up claim, and if the widow is dead. then one of the minor heirs can use the right: but It must be done through the guardian of the child. Widows and orphans of sol diess will not be required to cultivate the land or to personally do the work but can cause the same to be done by others capable to do practical farming. Good faith and cultivation to She best of the ability of oiclsimsnt IS all that the law requires. |
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